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</div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:text content:encoded"><p><strong>This little girl and her family are still adjusting to life in a refugee camp outside of Zahle, a small city near the Syrian border. They’re just a few of the 1.5 million civilians who have fled to Lebanon over the past three years of conflict. </strong></p>
<p><img alt="Children living in a refugee camp in Zahle" height="350" src="http://dd0jh6c2fb2ci.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/images/upload/other_alternate_for_3.jpg" title="Children living in a refugee camp in Zahle" width="640" /></p>
<p><strong>As a border town, Zahle is one of the most overcrowded hubs for refugees. Many children like these are forced to make do without running water or electricity as their families try to look for work on local farms.</strong></p>
<p><img alt="Father and son in the city of Tyre." height="350" src="http://dd0jh6c2fb2ci.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/images/upload/Syrian_refugees_2.jpg" title="Father and son in the city of Tyre." width="640" /></p>
<p><strong>Mohamed Hussein Ashua now lives in the southern city of Tyre with his wife and children: “I’ve been here with my family for four years. We left just before things got bad. I’ve seen so many more people coming in, steadily arriving with fewer and fewer possessions. It’s sad because it just shows me that the situation back home is getting worse.” <span style="line-height: 1.538em;">Action Against Hunger is providing aid to these people and so many others like them.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.538em;"><img alt="WASH programs in Zahle" height="350" src="http://dd0jh6c2fb2ci.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/images/upload/Syrian_refugees_6.jpg" title="WASH programs in Zahle" width="640" /></span></p>
<p><strong>Our water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs in the Zahle camps are improving conditions to help children like these stay safe and healthy. </strong></p>
<div><img alt="Cash for for work programs in Tyre" height="350" src="http://dd0jh6c2fb2ci.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/images/upload/Syrian_refugees_5.jpg" title="Cash for for work programs in Tyre" width="640" /></div>
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<div><strong>Our <a href="/blog/cash-work-program-aid-syrian-refugees-lebanon-launches">Cash For Work</a> programs are bringing crucial infrastructure and a sense of community to the refugee camps around Zahle.</strong></div>
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<div><img alt="Cash for food programs in Tyre" height="350" src="http://dd0jh6c2fb2ci.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/images/upload/Syrian_refugees_4.jpg" title="Cash for food programs in Tyre" width="640" /></div>
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<div><strong>Our Cash For Food program aids refugees and local residents alike in Tyre. The program empowers families to select and purchase their own food rations while stimulating the local economy.</strong></div>
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<div><em> All Photos by Gonzalo Hohr</em></div>
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</div></div></div><span rel="schema:url" resource="/blog/syrian-refugees-lebanon-their-stories-and-our-work-through-pictures" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Their Stories and Our Work Through Pictures" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:01:59 +0000rhead7183 at http://www.actionagainsthunger.orgSyria: Three Years of Crisishttp://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/syria-three-years-crisis
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<div class="caption">Syrian children like these remain refugees in Lebanon. Photo: ACF-Lebanon, C. Gayo</div>
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</div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:text content:encoded"><p><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">The Ides of March—it holds such an ominous place in our collective literary and social consciousness. Some we may chalk up to superstition. But some, it seems, is frighteningly all too real—tomorrow, March 15</span><sup>th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">, marks the third anniversary of the beginning of crisis in Syria. The numbers are staggering. More than 100,000 people have died, 2.5 million are refugees, and more than four million are internally displaced within their devastated home country.</span></p>
<h2>A full-blown regional crisis</h2>
<p>As bombings continue, more and more Syrians are seeking refuge abroad—much to the strain on their host nations. As it stands now, some 900,000 Syrians are in Lebanon, 613,000 in Turkey, 590,000 in Jordan, 222,600 in Iraq, and 133,000 in Egypt. </p>
<p>As such, the conflict has truly erupted into a regional one—and has unequivocally been dubbed by the NGO community as the worst humanitarian crisis of our generation. The countries bordering Syria, particularly Lebanon and Jordan, are feeling the weight of the constant flow of refugees. In Lebanon, for example, the more than 900,000 registered refugees represent nearly 25% of the host country’s population of four million. In areas close to the Syrian border, like Aarsal, the number of refugees far exceeds the population of native Lebanese.</p>
<h2>A coordinated NGO response</h2>
<p>According to Rob Drouen, a regional representative for Action Against Hunger in the Middle East, NGOs have stepped up as the main actors attempting to mitigate the crisis. Rob chairs the Board of the Regional Forum of NGOs in Syria, a 33-member group aiming to influence regional humanitarian policy.</p>
<p>Our teams are hard at work collaborating with governments to develop new services for refugees and host communities alike, and to support long-term interventions. We work through several coordination platforms, meeting with our colleague organizations to ensure proper coverage of food security, water, and nutrition programming throughout the region.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The Syrian crisis has emerged as a regional crisis that affects not only refugees but also communities and host governments, and it can lead to more division.”</p>
<p>—<em>Rob Drouen, Regional Representative-Middle East, Action Against Hunger</em></p></blockquote>
<p>By coordinating with our peers to aim for a situation in which no needs go over- or under-met, we’ve designed a comprehensive suite of response services, being implemented throughout the region. This means our efforts may entail nutrition response in one location, and water and sanitation or food security efforts in another. From distributing meals, blankets, diapers and hygiene kits, to distributing water by truck, to providing livestock vaccinations and fodder, to building latrines and so much more—we’re taking a nuanced, community-based approach to response.</p>
<h2>Real families, real stories</h2>
<p>The numbers associated with this crisis are astounding, and it can make it hard to remember that individual families just like ours are the ones who are suffering—and the ones we are working so hard to help.</p>
<p>Five-year-old Rawan had her leg shattered by a missile when she was on her way to the market with her mother in Yabroud, Syria. "We were coming down the stairs towards the market, when the rocket exploded," her mother, Rasha, explained. The bomb exploded, spitting up thousands of fragments that embedded in the legs of both mother and daughter. Rasha’s husband died, and Rawan lost so much blood that she needed several transfusions and was comatose for three days.</p>
<p>Rawan and her mother have been placed in one of our settlements in Abo Noor, Lebanon, where we’re providing drinking water and sanitation structures for refugees. We’re also collaborating with Handicap International to try to secure Rawan a wheelchair.</p>
<p>Disoriented and living in difficult conditions, refugees like Rawan are extremely vulnerable—and we fear the deterioration of family units. That’s why we’ve also starting programming focused on protecting family ties and promoting community solidarity. It’s this combination of care—physical, social, and emotional—that we hope makes the difference for Rawan, Rasha, and the millions like them across the region.</p>
</div></div></div><span rel="schema:url" resource="/blog/syria-three-years-crisis" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Syria: Three Years of Crisis" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:38:01 +0000erapport6996 at http://www.actionagainsthunger.orgKeeping malnutrition on radar after Typhoon Haiyanhttp://www.actionagainsthunger.org/mention/keeping-malnutrition-radar-after-typhoon-haiyan
<div class="field field-name-field-tax-mediasrc field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/media-mention-source/irin-asia" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">IRIN Asia</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mention-published field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-12-06T00:00:00-05:00">December 6, 2013</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Nearly one month after <a href="http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan" target="_blank">Typhoon Haiyan</a>swept through the Philippines, displacing more than four million people, health experts are trying to lower the rising risk of malnutrition among 1.5 million children under five, and help hundreds of thousands of women continue breastfeeding...up to half of the medical personnel working in the affected regions were personally affected by the typhoon. 'Because of the lack of food and water in the affected areas, some doctors abandoned their posts,' said Martin Parreno, the health and nutrition coordinator for the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim International (ACF). ACF’s Parreno noted that 'Damaged health facilities [are being] quickly repaired and made functioning to accommodate more patients.'”</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-link field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/99272/keeping-malnutrition-on-radar-after-typhoon-haiyan" rel="nofollow" title="Link to IRIN Asia">Read more on IRIN Asia »</a></div></div></div><span property="dc:title" content="Keeping malnutrition on radar after Typhoon Haiyan" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:52:50 +0000erapport6901 at http://www.actionagainsthunger.orgMideast art auction bids to help Syria's child refugeeshttp://www.actionagainsthunger.org/mention/mideast-art-auction-bids-help-syrias-child-refugees
<div class="field field-name-field-tax-mediasrc field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/mediamentionsource/cnn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CNN</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mention-published field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-11-06T00:00:00-05:00">November 6, 2013</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Syri-Arts Beirut is organized in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, UNICEF, Save The Children International, Action Against Hunger, Syri-Art Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), and the Beirut Exhibition Center.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-link field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/06/world/meast/artist-auction-bids-to-help-syrias-child-refugees/index.html" rel="nofollow" title="Link to CNN">Read more on CNN »</a></div></div></div><span property="dc:title" content="Mideast art auction bids to help Syria&#039;s child refugees" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:28:51 +0000dhernandez6860 at http://www.actionagainsthunger.org